NEWS.am daily digest: 04.11.21

NEWS.am daily digest: 04.11.21

Armenian News - NEWS.am presents the daily digest of Armenia-related top news as of 04.11.21:

ECHR

The European Court of Human Rights announced the decisions on the cases of Mamikon Khojoyan and Karen Petrosyan, who were captured and tortured in Azerbaijan in 2014.

The ECHR acknowledged that Baku has violated the right of the Armenian captives to life, as well as the rights to abstain from tortures and discrimination and to freedom and personal immunity. The ECHR also obliged Baku to pay EUR 40,000 under each case.

Baku transferred the body of Karen Petrosyan to the Armenian side in October 2014 in an attempt to conceal the traces of violence.

ALIYEV

The president of Azerbaijan complained about the absence of a response by Armenia to the matter of delimitation of the borders.

Ilham Aliyev expressed his dissatisfaction in this regard during his address at the opening of the Global Baku Forum, entitled “The World after COVID-19.”

"Azerbaijan has proposed Armenia to start work on a peace agreement. We [i.e., Azerbaijan] want to talk not about war, but about peace. We have proposed to start the work of delimitation and demarcation of borders [with Armenia]. But, unfortunately, no response was received [from Armenia]," Aliyev said.

According to him, Azerbaijan is showing maximum constructiveness.

RED CROSS

Representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross today visited Armenians who were captured or taken hostage in Azerbaijan.

They learned about the conditions for keeping them and helped them contact their families.

The Committee’s representatives regularly visit all the persons whose captivity is officially confirmed. Currently, Baku confirms the fact that there are 40 captives in Azerbaijan.

The persons were provided with the opportunity to exchange information and news related to their families, letters, video messages and phone calls of the Red Cross were used.

ZANGEZUR

The “Zangezur corridor” will benefit all countries in the region, Former Turkish prime minister, parliament ex-speaker, and MP Binali Yildirim told about told reporters on the margins of the VIII Global Baku Forum.

According to him, the opening of the aforementioned "corridor" will contribute to the expansion of ties between all countries in the region.

To note, the "Zangezur corridor" implies a road through the territory of Armenia. Yerevan states that it is ready to discuss the issue of unblocking communications in the region, but it is not about any "corridors."

COVID-19 IN ARMENIA

Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan spoke about the tense COVID-19 situation in the country.

The healthcare system is extremely overloaded, he noted adding that if there is a person waiting at home, it means that there is no space in the hospitals.

"Consequently, people are dying, there are reports every day, we are witnessing many tragic recordings every day," he noted.

Also, he stated that people should be saved from COVID-19 and that there is a way to save them from this pandemic.

As of Thursday morning, 2,330 new cases of the coronavirus were confirmed in Armenia, and the total number of these cases has reached 315,004 in the country.

Also, 41 more deaths from COVID-19 were registered, making the respective total 6,532 cases.

COVID-19 IN CHINA

China detected 109 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, of which 93 were local.

From the press release posted on the official website of the Committee on Wednesday it follows that China detected 16 imported and 93 local cases of COVID-19 infection. Most of the local cases were detected in the northern state bordering Russia (35 cases), RIA Novosti reports.

China detected 71 cases of COVID-19 on Monday, of which 54 were local.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, China has detected a total of 97,423 confirmed cases, and 4,636 people have died.